random technical notes

Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.

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“bin2cpp” is a little Tool for converting binary files in a C/C++ header file, so it can be used in other C++/C Programms (i.e. for putting a programm into another!).

Application Verifier is designed specifically to detect and help debug memory corruptions and critical security vulnerabilities.

This is achieved by monitoring a native application’s interaction with the Windows operating system, profiling its use of objects, the registry, the file system, and Win32 APIs (including heaps, handles, locks, etc), and indicating issues when and where they are discovered.

Application Verifier also includes checks to predict how well an application may perform under various account privileges. These compatibility tests are used in Windows Logo program.

Print verification tests are also available to verify your usage of the print subsystem.

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Additional links:

• Using Application Verifier Within Your Software Development Lifecycle
• Windows 7 Client Software Logo Toolkit (WSLK)
• Testing Applications with AppVerifier
• Application Verifier для программиста: тестирование Windows-приложений

TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC or server all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control your partner’s PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. Find out why more than 15.000.000 users trust TeamViewer!

The one-stop solution for desktop sharing

TeamViewer is the fast, simple and friendly solution for remote access over the Internet – all applications in one single, very affordable module:

Remote access to PCs and servers via Internet
Instantly take control over a computer anywhere on the Internet, even through firewalls. No installation required, just use it fast and secure.

Training, sales and teamwork
TeamViewer can also be used to present your desktop to a partner on the Internet – great for team collaboration, trainings and sales presentations.
File transfer, chat and more
Share your files, chat, switch the direction during a teamwork session, and a lot more is included in TeamViewer.

ForeUI is a handy UI prototyping tool. It can rapidly create static or interactive, skinnable UI prototypes of your website or software. You can use ForeUI to:

• Create mockup for the GUI in your mind and make others understand quickly.
• Make working prototype of website or software to collect feedback from potential users.
• Perform usability testing before releasing the beta version.
• Generate the schematics that can be inserted in the design documents.

This article give a detailed description on how ForeUI can help you.

Development packages

• Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit
• DirectX Development Center
• Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and so on.
  • Doxygen Manual
  • Special Commands

Assembler

• “Windows Programming in Assembly” is Randy Hyde’s book
• Flat Assembler
• Netwide Assembler – (it’s used for compiling OpenSSL)
• GSS Visual Assembler
• High Level Assembly
• HIDE is an HLA (High Level Assembler) IDE
• MASM Builder
• masm32
• RadASM Win32 Assembly IDE
• ResEd Resource Script Editor
• WASM.RU

C/C++ language

• See “C/C++ Language” page

UI Libraries

• See “Libraries – UI” section at “C/C++ Language” page
• See “Libraries – UI” section at “.NET” page
• BusinessSkinForm, DynamicSkinForm, SkinAdapter, SmartFlash and SmartEffects (Delphi)

Web

• Winginx – local web server for PHP5, MySQL, MongoDB – a handy tool for web development!
• XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start
• SiteFusion is a server-based development environment. Applications are written in pure object-oriented PHP and work through a thin XUL client. SiteFusion applications look and behave like native system applications but run on a server generating JavaScript commands.
• WebMatrix is a free web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything you need for website development. Start from open source web applications, built-in web templates or just start writing code yourself. It’s all-inclusive, simple and best of all free. Developing websites has never been easier.

Subversion

• The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control (TortoiseSVN) – TortoiseSVN is an easy-to-use SCM / source control software for Microsoft Windows and possibly the best standalone Subversion client there is. It is implemented as a Windows shell extension, which makes it integrate seamlessly into the Windows explorer. Since it’s not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like.
• Commit-monitor for Subversion repositories (commitmonitor) – Monitors Subversion repositories for new commits and shows a notification to the user when that happens.
• VisualSVN makes your life easier with a reliable plug-in that integrates Subversion seamlessly with Visual Studio.
• VisualSVN Server makes the Subversion server easy and convenient to install and administer on Windows.
• Slik SVN
• Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface.
  • Mercurial Source Control Plugin for MS Visual Studio
  • Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

Git

• Wikipedia: Git. Russian and English articles
• Git SCM to Windows
• SourceTree – a free Git client for Windows or Mac
• TortoiseGit
• GitHub is the best way to collaborate with others. Fork, send pull requests and manage all your public and private git repositories.
• Articles

File compirising

• WinMerge
• Beyond Compare – file comparison and merge application
• DiffMerge – DiffMerge is an application to visually compare and merge files for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Configuring TortoiseSVN to use DiffMerge.
• KDiff3

Testing

• MouseController – Records and plays back mouse actions
• WinUnit
• Microsoft Application Verifier
• MiniFuzz – is a basic testing tool designed to help detect code flaws that may expose security vulnerabilities in file-handling code. This tool creates multiple random variations of file content and feeds it to the application to exercise the code in an attempt to expose unexpected and potentially insecure application behaviors.

Debugging

• Visual Leak Detector for Visual C++ 2008/2010/2012/2013
• The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in any user-mode process. The tool includes additional debugging scripts focused on Internet Information Services (IIS) applications, web data access components, COM+ and related Microsoft technologies.
• Debugging Tools for Windows (part of Windows Driver Kit (WDK))
• VMMap
• DebugView for Windows
• !exploitable Crash Analyzer
• Microsoft Application Verifier
• SymStore – (symstore.exe) is a tool for creating symbol stores. It is included in the Debugging Tools for Windows package. SymStore stores symbols in a format that enables the debugger to look up the symbols based on the time stamp and size of the image (for a .dbg or executable file), or signature and age (for a .pdb file). The advantage of the symbol store over the traditional symbol storage format is that all symbols can be stored or referenced on the same server and retrieved by the debugger without any prior knowledge of which product contains the corresponding symbol.
• gDEBugger CL it will bring gDEBugger’s advanced Debugging, Profiling and Memory Analysis abilities to the OpenCL developer’s world, helping OpenCL developers find bugs, optimize parallel computing application performance and memory consumption.
• TraceTool 12.4 – the Swiss-Army Knife of Trace
• APISpy32
• FocusFlasher
• WinSpy++
• MiniSpy
• API Monitor – is a software that monitors and displays API calls made by applications. Its a powerful tool for seeing how Windows and other applications work or tracking down problems that you have in your own applications. The current version include Filters to monitor the following API Categories.
• InspectExe – lets you explore and diagnose problems with Win32 applications. It is integrated directly into the Windows® Explorer and adds as a set of extra pages in the Properties sheet for the selected executable file. Look at the screen shots atthe bottom of this page to see examples of the information it displays.
• Dependency Walker – is a free utility that scans any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module (exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.) and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules. For each module found, it lists all the functions that are exported by that module, and which of those functions are actually being called by other modules. Another view displays the minimum set of required files, along with detailed information about each file including a full path to the file, base address, version numbers, machine type, debug information, and more.
• dumpbin from Visual Studio tools (VC\bin folder) can help here:
  dumpbin /dependents your_dll_file.dll
• Network Sniffers
  • Fiddler
  • Wireshark

Tools

• Expresso – The premier regular expression development tool. The award-winning Expresso editor is equally suitable as a teaching tool for the beginning user of regular expressions or as a full-featured development environment for the experienced programmer or web designer with an extensive knowledge of regular expressions.
• Edraw Max is an all-in-one graphics software that makes it simple to create professional-looking flowcharts, organizational charts, network diagrams, business presentations, building plans, mind maps, fashion designs, UML diagrams, workflows, program structures, web design diagrams, electrical engineering diagrams, directional maps, database diagrams and more.
• WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

Tools – JSON

• JSON Viewer

Tools – Development process

• TestTrack Pro – Tracking defects, issues, and feature requests is a critical component of any software development and quality control process. The earlier and quicker bugs are resolved, the lower your development cost and the higher your product quality. TestTrack Pro puts improved quality, communication, and reporting within reach. Use TestTrack Pro and create better software in less time.
• Perforce is a proven SCM solution for your valuable code and digital assets.
• TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful, Free and Open Source Software project management tool. Its new approach to project planing and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools. TaskJuggler is project management software for serious project managers. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, risk and communication management.
• Agile Planner – this tool is for agile project teams, who currently are using sticky notes on the wall. With this tool stories, backlog and iterations are managed in a graphic designer, saved as files within visual studio projects and can be exported to images, reports and etc.

Tools – Build

• Hudson – extensible continuous integration server

Tools – SQL

• see SQL page

Tools – UML

• PlantUML – is a component that allows to quickly write : sequence diagram, use case diagram, class diagram, activity diagram, component diagram, state diagram and object diagram.
• UMLet – Free UML Tool for Fast UML Diagrams. UMLet is an open-source UML tool with a simple user interface: draw UML diagrams fast, export diagrams to eps, pdf, jpg, svg, and clipboard, share diagrams using Eclipse, and create new, custom UML elements.
• Violet UML Editor –  is a UML editor with these benefits: Very easy to learn and use. Draws nice-looking diagrams. Completely free. Cross-platform. Violet is intended for developers, students, teachers, and authors who need to produce simple UML diagrams quickly.
• StarUML is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform that is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as Rational Rose, Together and so on.
• ArgoUML – is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages.
• BOUML – is a free UML 2 tool box allowing you to specify and generate code in C++, Java, Idl, Php and Python.
• Dia – is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for GNU/Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL license.
• WebSequenceDiagrams –

Utilities – Windows SysInternals

• Process Explorer
• Autoruns for Windows
• Handle – is a utility that displays information about open handles for any process in the system.
• ListDLLs – is able to show you the full path names of loaded modules – not just their base names.
• VMMap – VMMap is a process virtual and physical memory analysis utility.
• DebugView for Windows – is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP.

Utilities

• Notepad2
• Notepad++
• RegEx Helper. Notepad++ plugin for testing and editing regular expression
• SCREENPRESSO gives professional look to your screenshots!

OS

• Embedded
• DOSBox
• KolibriOS
• osFree
• React Operating System

Notepad2, a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system’s registry.

Download local version of  Notepad2

Homepage

Windows Shortcuts

• List of Windows 8 Shortcuts
• Complete list of Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 10
• The ultimate guide to Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts
• Windows Support: Keyboard shortcuts in Windows
• Here’s the full list of keyboard shortcuts for Windows 10

Windows

• EmClient (eM Client is a full featured e-mail client. eM Client also offers calendar, tasks, contacts and chat)
• Notepad2
• Notepad++
  • Plugin Manager should be installed separately from here
  • Plugins:
    • CS-Script (C# IntelliSense) – Notepad++ plugin for CS-Script integration. It implements a real C# intellisense (similar to MS IntelliSense®) solution based on CS-Script and ICSharpCode.NRefactory/Mono.Cecil;
    • CsvQuery – Enables SQL queries against CSV files;
    • DoxyIt – Generates Doxygen style comment blocks based on function/method definitions;
    • JSON Viewer – Displays the selected JSON string in a tree view;
    • LuaScript – Plugin for Lua scripting capabilities. Provides control over all of Scintilla’s features and options with a light-weight, fully-functional programming language.
    • NppCrypt – encryption/decryption with various block ciphers, hash-algorithms, random-characters, encoding with base-16/32/64
    • NppFTP – allows FTP, FTPS, FTPES and SFTP communications;
    • NppQrCode – it allows to create QR-Code from selected text. Just select the text and push plugin button;
    • Poor Man’s T-Sql Formatter – A simple SQL formatter performing full multi-batch T-SQL formatting (individual statements,
      stored procedures, any DML, any DDL) with numerous formatting options;
    • SQLinForm – formats plain SQL, SQL embedded in Program Code, SQL snippets and SQL Statements with syntax errors. SQLinForm’s Plugin for Notepad++ has a powerful code folding feature and formats your SQL as you Type. It supports all major DB like Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Teradata, Netezza, MySQL, Sybase, MS Access, etc. SQLinForm incorporates its own multi-DB parser engine. No additional software is required;
• Paint.Net
• Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows (GitHub)
• ShareX – screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool (GitHub)
• 7-zip
• Adobe Flash Player
• Облако@mail.ru (home page)
• Telegram (login)
• Viber
• Skype
• TunSafe – A high performance and secure VPN client that uses the WireGuard protocol (GitHub)
• OpenVPN
• FBReader
• WinDjView
• Kaspersky free antivirus
• Office
  • SoftMaker Office 2016 (download)
  • SoftMaker FreeOffice
  • Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor. Tutorials: Getting Started, Official Youtube channel, Shotcut уроки
  • Kdenlive is a free and open-source video editing software based on the MLT Framework, KDE and Qt. Уроки (Youtube)
  • Movavi Video Suite (download suite15)
  • Free PDF converter – doPDF
  • Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows. It is small, portable and starts up very fast.
  • UVScreenCamera
  • CintaNotes – a free, lightweight and user-friendly personal notes manager. CintaNotes lets you quickly save and tag any useful information that you come across or just need to jot down.
  • Foxit Reader
  • PDF-XChange Viewer (?)
  • AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks
  • SCREENPRESSO gives professional look to your screenshots!
• Development Environment
  • B4J – Modern “VB6 like” development tool for cross platform desktop, server and IoT solutions
  • Java SE Development Kit 8 Downloads
  • Expresso – The premier regular expression development tool
  • Python
  • TortoiseGIT (additional info, Git for Windows)
  • TortoiseSVN
  • WinMerge
  • Git –everything-is-local
  • MobaXterm – Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more
  • PureBasic
• Support
  • TeamViewer
  • VirtualBox
  • TrueCrypt
  • VeraCrypt
  • KeePass Password Safe
  • ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of Microsoft Office, Windows, Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer.
  • How To Block Windows 10 Data Collection (Download Spybot Anti-Beacon)
  • DisableWinTracking – uses some known methods that attempt to disable tracking in Windows 10
  • W10Privacy  – Privacy made easy (download)
  • 4Pda: Отключаем шпионство в Windows 10! Подробная инструкция
• Ammyy Admin – оптимальное решение для удаленного доступа к компьютеру через Интернет!
• pendriveapps.com – portable Software Applications that run from USB
• Alternativeto.net – Crowdsourced software recommendations
• DropBox
• Box.Net
• Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Personal (rus)
• AdFender – The Ultimate Ad Blocker
• DjView4
• Far Manager
  • Registry browser – allows you to do with registry keys and variables exactly the same things as with directories and files.
  • Colorer take5 is a syntax highlighting and text parsing library, that provides services of text parsing in host editor systems in real-time and transforming results into colored text (Far Manager Plugin).
  • VisualCompare – Визуальное сравнение файлов и каталогов.
  • Background copy – With this plugin you can:- copy/move/delete files in background;- get info about current background jobs;- stop any background job;- copy/move/delete/view/edit files even its contains symbols, which can’t-correctly map into current OEM codepage.
  • Drag’N’Drop – alows user to perform drag and drop operations between FAR manager and GUI-based applications.
• Graphical Editors
  • PicPick is user friendly and full of features for creating your image, suitable for software developers, graphic designers and home user
  • XnView
  • Cropper is a screen capture utility written in C# which enables you to: Quickly capture and crop images of your screen, Crop out sections of vector graphic files without having to flatten the files or open in a new editor, Capture parts of a web site, including text and images, Breeze through creating documentation with images of other applications or websites. (CodePlex)
• Media and Video
  • TEncoder Video Converter Portable – video converter, ripper, and downloader
  • Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. MPC mimics the look and feel of Windows Media Player 6.4, but provides most options and features available in modern media players.
  • K-Lite Codec Pack
  • Hamster Free Video – converts any video to iPod, iPad, iPhone, PS3, PSP, Blackberry, xBox, Zune, Apple TV, iRiver, etc.
  • Free Studio is a single package which bundles all free software from DVDVideoSoft to work with DVD, video and audio files!
  • Any Video Converter Free Version
  • VLC media player
• The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent.
• Microsoft Edge
  • Tracking Protection Lists: EasyList
  • Install “Adblock Plus” from Microsoft Store
  • Video Downloader Professional for Edge: easily download videos from YouTube and numerous other sites
    • download and save videos playing on a website to hard disk
    • add videos easily to your video list. There you have quick access to the videos and you can play them at any time, without having to return to the original web page. You also have the option to play the videos in any size (currently available at selected video providers like YouTube and Vimeo)
• Internet Explorer:
  • Tracking Protection Lists: EasyList
  • Install Adblock Plus for IE Browser
• Mozilla Firefox:
  • uBlock origin
  • Video Downloader Professional
  • Ghostery sees the invisible web – tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.
  • Russian spellchecking dictionary
  • Download Manager Tweak
  • Flagfox
• SkyShellEx is a shell extension that allows you to sync any folder to SkyDrive but keeps your existing folder structure intact. SkyShellEx is available as 32 bit and 64 bit extension for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. The .NET 4.0 Framework is required.
• Edraw Max is an all-in-one graphics software that makes it simple to create professional-looking flowcharts, organizational charts, network diagrams, business presentations, building plans, mind maps, fashion designs, UML diagrams, workflows, program structures, web design diagrams, electrical engineering diagrams, directional maps, database diagrams and more.
• Promt Translator Online
• Abbyy Lingvo Online

Windows Update

• Каталог Центра обновления Майкрософт
  • Win7: KB3102810
    • Не устанавливаются обновления Windows 7
  • Win8.1: KB3065988, KB3138615, KB2976978
• How do I reset Windows Update components?

Windows Utilities

• the-sz.com – Office Applications, Network Applications and Development Tools.
• MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition 9
• Fiddler (The free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform)
• PC-Wizard – is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It’s able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results.
• BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy.
• Manage it! Is a new, portable, easy way to manage your computer. Changes registry, setting timer for shutdown, etc. *Manage It! is new version of MSV System Utilities.
• UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD.
• Inobitec DICOM Viewer – Просмотрщик медицинских снимков

Recovery Tools

• TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software: certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
• MHDD.RU – лаборатория восстановления данных
• PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.
• FreeRecover is a free file recovery program for NTFS drives. It allows you to search though and preview deleted files to find lost data. It also estimates the integrity of the deleted files, as well as retrieves their original file paths.
• SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.

Ubuntu

• See “Linux” page

Mac OS

• Paragon NTFS for Mac® OS X (rus)
• Parallels Desktop for Mac
• TrueCrypt
• VirtualBox
• VLC media player
• FBReader
• WinDjView
• Skype
• Opera
• Miro
• Utilities
  • Disk Inventory X
  • Reader Notifier
  • TeamViewer

SVGMin a small command-line utility to reduce SVG size by removing redundant information.

Many illustration programs can export the drawing to the SVG format. However, the SVG output is often sprinkled with a lot of extra stuff, mostly so that the file can be read back without a loss of information. This is however not good if the SVG output is the final file targeted for deployment, e.g. for a web site or as a scalable theme in a mobile platforms. The extra baggage in the contents which has no effect on the rendering should be removed to reduce both the download size and the (run-time) parsing time.

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.

Fiddler is freeware and can debug traffic from virtually any application, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and thousands more.